Air-moistener for carbureters.



0. 5.6; E. FIELDS. AIR MOISTENER FOR GARBURETERS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29, 1913.

1,115,917, Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

0090 o -o 0 oboe WINK/E8858. [NI/[M7038 I CWIS E. rims m/{ is EH1]. FIELDS CHARLES E. FXELDS AND EMIL FIELDS, F STOCKTON, GALIFORNL...

AIR-MOISTENER FOE GARE URETERS.

To all cm it may concern Be it known that we, CHAnLns E. FIELDS and EMIL Flaws, citizens of the United States, residing at Stockton, in'the county of San Joaquin and State of California, have invented certain new and useful lin provements in Air-llloisteuers for Carbureters; and We do declare the following to be -a clear, full, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the characters marked thereon, which form a part of this application."

This invention relates to improvements in carburetors and is particularly designed to provide a device whereby the air taken in by the carbureter may be always of the same humidity so that irrespective of What climate or altitude a motor vehicle may ,be traveling in, the explosive mixture Will be at all times uniform and since when prop erly adjusted a mixture of moistened air with the fuel gives the best results in the motor, the aim of our invention is to provide a means for always moiste'ning the air prior to its being taken into the carburetor. To this end we provide a means for passing the air through the water prior to its admission to the carbureter and the object of the invention is to do this in anefiicient and proper manner so as to give a, uniform amount of air with a uniform amount of moisture to the cal'bureter at all times.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and yet one which will. be exceedingly effective for the purposes for which it is designed.

These objects, We accomplish by means of such structure and relative arrangement of the parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claim.

On the drawings, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

Figure l is an outline view of a motor and carbureter showing our improved attachment thereon. F :Zis a sectional view taken on a line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of our improved device. Fig. e is a sectional View taken on a line Y-Y of Fig. 2. I

Referringnow more particularly to the characters of reference-on the drawings, the numeral 1 designates the motor, the numeral Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed. July 23, 3.913.

Patented Nov. 3, 1 i) Serial lilo. 781,752.

2 the carburetor and the numeral 3 designates the air intake portion of such cal. bureter 2.

Our improved device embodies a receptacle 4 of any desired shape having a closed top 5 provided with a plurality of holes 6. Beneath the top 5 is a false top 7 substantially convex in shape and leading from which are a plurality of open tubes 8 projecting dowl'uvardly into the receptacle 4 to a point near the bottom thereof.

The numeral 9 designates a Water' supply .pipe leading from the radiator of the vehicle or from any other suitable source.

Such pipe 9 is provided with an inlet valve 10 controlled by a float 11 to the Water level Within the receptacle 4, which water level is normally a considerable distance above the lower endsof the tubes 8. Within the receptacle a and around the tubes 8 and above the water level We provide one or Lmore partitions 12 filled With small holes 13.

Leading from the receptacle 4 through the members 7 and 5 We provide an outlet pipe 14. connected with the air inlet portion 3 to the carbureter. In practice, the suction of. the motor throgh the carbui eter draws the air through the holes 6 into the space between the members 5 and'7, thence through the tubes 8 and through the Water in said receptacle 4 which moistens the air and it then passes above the Water level in the receptacle dfrom which is taken through the pipe l-l into the carburetor. As can readily be seen, this will continuously moisten all the air taken into the carburetor.

The partitions l2 prevent the Water from splashing and being taken directly through the pipe 14 and similarly the top 5 with the plurality of small holes prevents any water splashing out of the receptacle to any deree. From the foregoing description it Will be readily seen that We have produced such a device as substantially fulfills the' objects of the invention as set forth herein.

',lVhile' this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still in practice, such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described our invention What. we claim as newand useful and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: A device of the character described comprising a, receptacle. having a closed top pipe leading from said receptacle through provided. with a plurality of holes, a false said false top and through the top of said top disposed below thetop of said recepreceptacle independently of the holes then- 15 tacle; a'plurality of open tubes leading from in, as described.

5 saidzfalse top downwardly into said recefi- In testimony whereof We affix our signatacle, a plurality of partitions in said retures in presence of two Witnesses. eeptacle disposed around said tubes and pro- OH ALRLES E FIELDS vided with holes,' an inlet pipe connecting E FIELD'S with the bottom of said receptacle, a valve in said inlet pipe, a float projecting between lVitnesses:

said tubes and having a stern controlling the PERCY S. WEBSTER, movement of said valve and an outlet GERALDINE WARNER. 

